Re: If it weren't for the customers, this job would be the sh*t

["Mark Leuck" <m..leuck@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Bob La Londe" <nospam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> > The turbo was an excellent bike although not any more power than the
> > standard 650 Seca,
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> Really?  You could get the same speed and acceleration out of the regular
> 650 without dealing with the turb lag time?  That would be incredible.

That was the bad part of that bike, If I remember Yamaha tried to reduce the
turbo boost to make it a more "civilized" bike compared to the Honda CX500
Turbo and the Suzuki 650 Turbo, in the end they got an excellent bike with
no major advantage over the stock 650 other than a damn nice looking
fairing. I almost bought one.

Those three bikes were way ahead of their time, too bad they only lasted a
couple of years, my favorite period for motorcycling was 1980 to about 1987,
after that they all started looking too much alike and I lost interest